CrimeDad @ CrimeDad @lemmy.crimedad.work

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I don't think Trump is getting scammed. I think it's kayfabe. All the players know the mineral reserves aren't real or vastly overestimated. It's a false pretext to keep selling the war to the people. We're the ones getting scammed.

What you're describing only works if an increasing number of parking spots have chargers installed at them. I just don't think it's sustainable or feasible.

My main contention is that long range BEVs are a bad idea. They might mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but that comes with the above infrastructure problems, increasing demand on the problematic battery industry, and in turn creating more battery disposal problems. Furthermore, they perpetuate the living room on wheels paradigm that holds us back from the real solution to transporting people over land: rail. Meanwhile, short range BEVs are great because they make the most of their batteries, barely require any new infrastructure, and save their owners the hassle of needing to visit a gas station or find a "fast" charger at all.

BEVs aren't compatible with the gas station model because they take too long to charge. ICE vehicles and even FCEVs are in and out of a gas station in five minutes, so you don't need a big footprint to fuel up a lot of vehicles. BEVs need to park for a while to get a substantial charge, not even full one. The fast chargers get Teslas to 80% in something like thirty minutes. So, if these fast charger were installed adjacent to gas pumps, the price to charge your BEV would have to be something like 6x the cost to refuel in order to cover the missed fuel sales.

As for what type of vehicle a someone should own for the scenario you describe, a long range BEV is overkill. Either keep a ICE car for all your driving or keep a small BEV for local trips and rent a more appropriate vehicle for infrequent long trips. Better yet, take a train or bus for those long trips and rent a short range BEV closer to your final destination.

Are employers participating in the boycott by not buying any labor today?

Fuel pumps are operated by gas station attendants by law in NJ.

Maybe there's a battery range/charge time sweet spot, but I think it's easy to underestimate what common enough would look like. These chargers are going to have to be everywhere and they're probably not going to be taken care of properly. It's just more e-waste.

To answer your question: no, that is not my suggestion.

When these batteries burn, they can't be put out except by cooling them down somehow because they contain their own oxidizer. So fire departments tend to just let them burn and send whatever metals and other chemicals into the atmosphere. A gasoline fire can be put out with fire suppressants that deprive it of air. Apart from that, the batteries are also hazardous in terms of their manufacturing and disposal lifecycle and also just by making vehicles heavier. Heavier vehicles mean more energetic collisions and they also require bigger brakes, which means more brake dust pollution.

What do domestic roles have anything to do with this topic?

Aren't EV batteries already big enough? As in, you probably shouldn't drive more than 8 hours or so in a day without taking a long break and getting a good night's sleep. There many models on the market with that capability, right? Also, if that's the type of driving you're doing frequently, an ICE vehicle or ideally an FCEV would be a better choice, just in terms of avoiding battery wear and tear and reducing the amount dead weight you're schlepping around. If you're only going on long drives occasionally, just rent a suitable vehicle or consider another from of transit like a train or a bus and then rent a little EV near your destination.

Adopting children is more difficult than giving birth to them in some cases. Also, the nice thing about reproducing your own children is that you can be sure that you're not effectively human trafficking them or otherwise participating in family separation schemes. Idealism gets in the way of us realizing that adoption is kind of an industry with some dark aspects to it. Of course, good people choose adoption for good reasons and I am supportive of them. However, I don't think there's any good basis for judging negatively parents who choose biological reproduction. The only logic for that is Malthusian, which is a worthless, repeatedly failed doomsday prophecy as far as I am concerned.

If we're counting property values, millionaires are a dime a dozen in some areas.

RIP

You need a computer and an Internet connection that isn't too restrictive. Install Yunohost on it (or on a VM) and then the Lemmy app. It's not perfect, but it will work. That's what I do.

I don't think I've ever seen a billionaire IRL.

Probably because it is hosted on an old PC over a not so fast internet connection.

The press release is insane. I encourage everyone to read it.

It's called harm-reduction.

Maybe it could be a little robot with treads like a tank, always creeping against the direction of peristalsis.

A spray of hot water and some UV out to do the trick. Think about the planet.